Wilderness

"Wilderness" didn't make it onto my blog while my father was living for obvious reasons. I will say he did make good in the end. I flew up to see him over Christmas this year. I wrote this after visiting my father in Alaska after a long estrangement.

"Wilderness" was originally published in the Open Field. It is the winner of a 2015 Clyde D. Tull Prose Award, a 2015 Reader's Choice Award. It was a finalist for the Nick Adams Short Story Contest in 2016.

Today was a Good Day

Today was a good day.

      A belated spring came to my beloved Hilltop. I slept in after I closed the library last night.

A job called back.

An editor returned my email.

A heated text to my ex didn’t send by electronic failure and I had a chance to think better of it.

I returned to another of my jobs.

I have three.

I’m back at two.

I prepared for a long night at the library. I stirred my hot chocolate into my instant coffee.

Stopped.